Dr. Marvin Wachman (1917-2007) was a great advocate for educating young people. In a distinguished academic career, he served as president of both Temple University and Lincoln University and led the Foreign Policy Research Institute as president from 1983 to 1989. Throughout his life, he remained a passionate believer that “you never stop learning.”
Established in 1990, the Wachman Center is dedicated to improving international and civic literacy for high school teachers and high school students.

December 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union. 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Soviet Russia. Both dates give reason to reexamine the history of Eurasia, a vast region with many ethnic groups and multiple religions, at times united under authoritarian governments, at other times divided between dozens of countries.

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Since the shocking events of September 11, policymakers and strategists in Washington around the world have struggled to identify and defend against a constantly expanding range of potential terrorist threats. Their efforts have become a source of controversy and uncertainty, raising questions about both the technical practicability and social desirability of different approaches. Uncertainty about how and where the next attack might come only adds to the general sense of unease, and makes the threat itself a weapon almost as disruptive as any act could be. Join FPRI Princeton committee chair John Haines for our discussion of the nature of the contemporary threat, and the current efforts to identity and defend against future attacks.

A trustee of FPRI, John Haines is a private investor and entrepreneur. His current efforts focus on the question of nuclear smuggling and terrorism, and the development of technologies to discover, detect, and characterize concealed fissile material. He has been a student of security and intelligence for many years, holding advanced degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Fels Scholar, and from King’s College in London. He is a life member of the US Naval War College Foundation and the US Naval Institute and a member of the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

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